Choy-Li-Ho #26
August 25, 2010This is a sample of Choy-Li-Ho. It is Choy-Li-Ho #26.
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August 18, 20102010 Annual Seminar
July 26, 2010The annual Kung- Fu San- Soo seminar is almost here. Thank all of you for your RSVP. Check in on Friday night August 6th at the school located at 16503 Bellflower Blvd, Bellflower Ca. 90706, will be at 5:00. We will start at 5:30 on Friday night and go until 9:00. The phone number there is 562 866-4904. Call if you need to.
Check in on Saturday will be at 8:30. We will begin at 9:00 with the lunch break at noon served at the school. We will continue at 1:00 and go until 4:30. On Sunday, we are going to go from 9:00 am till 11:00 am.
I am really looking forward to this years seminar. I think it will be the best on ever.
2010 annual seminar coming up
April 16, 2010This is to formally announce my annual 3 day kung fu san soo seminar. We will be starting on Friday the 6th of august, 2010 and continuing all day Saturday, the 7th of August and a half day on Sunday. As usual we will be expecting a sell out crowd from association members and other San soo practitioners.
Last years event was one a wonderful experience for everyone in attendance and this year will be even better.
The cost for the entire event is still just $150.00. For those of you who are planning to attend now is the time to save the date. Tickets can be purchased in advance to make sure your spot is reserved. Just contact me at my school by phone (562 8664904) or email me at hulsey@netwood.net me for more information.
Good accomadations can be obtained at the Bellflower Travel Inn. They can be reached at (562) 9209556. The address is 16400 Lakewood Blvd. Bellflower, Ca. 90706. The hotel is actually walking distance to my school.
I don’t want to panic anyone, but I will be 64 years old on my next birthday and I cannot guarantee that this will not be the last seminar I can or will hold.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn some wonderful kung fu san soo techniques from Master Bill Hulsey and to network with some of the finest san soo students and teachers from around the nation.
Act now and reserve your spot today. I will be looking forward to seeing you old students again and to meeting you new students as well.
Bruce Lee by icyookami
April 11, 2010Don’t Box a Boxer – Sports Don’t Survive on the Street
March 7, 2010There is a saying in the Kung Fu San Soo world that goes something like this, “don’t box a boxer, and don’t wrestle a wrestler.” What this means simply is to fight the way you’ve been trained to fight. And, fight by the rules that you’ve been trained to fight with, which are no rules.
The whole idea in a fight is to come out the winner. For that to happen, the other guy has to lose, pure and simple. And the best way to insure that he loses is to never give him a chance to win in the first place. Whenever possible, strike first, and hit a target that will take your opponent out of the fight, such as the eyes, throat, or groin. This may not seem very sporting, but real fighting isn’t a sport, and there are no second place winners.
We have been given the ultimate in hand¬-to-hand combat fighting technique and method – Kung Fu San Soo. The power generated by proper shoulder turn is incredible. Combined with a punching combination that sets your opponent up for each subsequent and devastating blow, aimed at weak points on the body, makes this system a powerful weapon for the practictioner. But, it must be joined with a commitment on your part to inflict that pain and damage to your opponent. Without that commitment, the system is weakened. And when it is weakened by lack of commitment, it becomes a watered down version of a true fighting art. It short, it starts to become more of a sport.
And, sports don’t survive on the street.
HULSEY TO RECALL MASTERS DEGREES
January 5, 2010If you received your master’s degree or any black belt degrees from Bill Hulsey from 1985 to present day and want to find out if your degree has been recalled, then do read on.
I am not going to mention any names here. I am already far to embarrassed for you guys to further humiliate you with the mention of your names. You know who you are. Everyone at my school knows who you are. If you fit into the category or have ever done any of the following then I am talking about you. I just wish there was a way I could give you your money back in exchange for the wisdom I have given you. Unfortunately there isn’t, so instead I am recalling your master’s degree.
I have been president of the infamous “black sheep squadron” ever since I left Frank Woolsey’s to begin my training with the late grandmaster Jimmy H. Woo, back in 1975. My students and I have listened to crap from green belts to studio owners ever since. Maybe you guys don’t like the fact that I came from Franks Woolsey’s first before beginning my training with Jimmy. Actually, I can almost understand bad mouthing coming from those of you in business but you Judas masters I don’t train any more, you need to keep your mouths shut. How soon you forget.
If you let it be known that you left my school so your new teacher could take you to the next level, then what you are really saying is that you never reached the level of master in the first place. Real masters have all ready reached what you call the next level. A real master is one who no longer needs the aid of an instructor. So, if this shoe fits your foot, then take off the master’s degree I gave you and get recertified from your new instructor. You can also rip up the certificate I gave you, because for you and me it no longer has any meaning.
There are also those who came to me with the sob story of not being able to afford the training offered at my school. When I made arrangements to allow them to study for free, what did they do? They went out and actually paid another instructor full price while continuing to study with me as well. I gave you first class training that could save your life for over 12 years and you put a con on me like that. What a disappointment you are.
Later on, you had the audacity to come back into my school for another free workout. You actually tried to convince some of my loyal students to quit my school and go to another school. That is the most despicable thing any of my students has ever had done to me in my 35 years of teaching. Is there anything more disrespectful than that? Do you hate me so much, that you try to take food off my families table, or take away my daughter’s college tuition? What were you thinking? I ask you, would you like me to go down to your work and try to convince you boss to reduce your salary by a few hundred dollars? I don’t think so. You think I am pissed off at you, you damn right I am. By your actions, you have disgraced yourself and dishonored me and my family. I am recalling your master’s degree because you simply don’t deserve my signature on your certificate. Go get recertified and trash the belt and certificate I gave you because in my eyes trash is exactly what they are.
I am so glad to know you are now learning how to determine who could win in a real fight without ever having seen either opponent actually fight. I guess I missed that class. I really don’t care about your opinion or that you told one of my loyal masters that your new teacher could rip me apart! That doesn’t hurt my feelings one bit. Maybe he could, I don’t know, but then again, neither do you. All I can do is my best. That is all any of us can do. I do know this though and it is guaranteed, that if anyone is unlucky enough to run into one of my flush punches, they would need a plastic surgeon to put their face back together. All the masters I have trained have this ability. If you don’t feel this about yourself, then don’t wear the belt I gave you and go get recertified
I think that what you don’t understand is that when you say bad things about me, you are also talking about yourself as well. If you learned anything at all from me, you should not be talking trash. I have told you over and over to never under estimate your opponent. You must treat all adversaries as your potential equal. All masters know that this is a fundamental lesson in our art. If you don’t believe this, then go get recertified. You are not one of my masters.
You cannot ever change the san soo DNA you have. It came from me. I got it from Frank Woolsey and then Jimmy Woo and in that order. Sorry about that! I do have a question for you though and do give this some real thought before you answer. If someone came up to you and tried to break your jaw, what would you do? Would you use the san soo you learned from me or the lessons you are learning now? If your answer is the lessons you are learning now, that is ok because your new teacher is a master with great wisdom and abilities, but take off the master’s belt I gave you and get recertified from him.
Know this. I don’t care if one of my students leaves my school and seeks out another teacher. It happens to all teachers regardless of how good they are. I left my first teacher to study with Jimmy Woo. Just leave with dignity. There are a handful of those who chose to leave without honor and without dignity. For you guys, I do apologize. I have failed you. I failed to teach you the most important part of the art. I do believe I taught each and every one of you how to defend yourself in the absolute worst of situations but I failed you in the building of your human character and integrity. What do we really have in this world? We have our character and that is what history will judge each and every one of us on. For those few of you who are ungrateful for what I have given you, I have but one last lesson to give to you and this one is also free. Your degrees have been recalled. GO GET RECERTIFIED.
BECOME THE BELT
October 7, 2009BECOME THE BELT
I will never forget the day I got my black belt from Frank Woolsey. It wasn’t a normal day at all. After all, this was the day I was to take my test to see just how much I had actually learned. I was pretty nervous. Sometimes, when Frank came up and asked me to show him even just one lesson, my mind would go completely blank. Now I was going to have to show him everything I had learned up to now. I got through the test just fine, even though it had taken three days and one injury. I was pretty proud of myself. When Frank shook my hand and congratulated me on passing the test, I felt great. He handed me my black belt and walked away.
It hadn’t hit me yet that I was actually a fully fledged black belt in a true combat art, but I did know I was extremely proud of my accomplishment. I was busy shaking hands with all my fellow students and then one of them said, “Hey, aren’t you going to put your new belt on?” “Damn right I am” I said as I strolled into the locker room to put the old belt away.
I strapped on that stiff new belt, and to me it was like wearing the Congressional Medal of Honor. As I headed toward the door I thought to myself, “now that I’ve got this thing on, I’ve got to look like a black belt.” So I stuck my chest out as far as I could get it, positioned my hips a little forward and walked onto that floor a different person, with a different attitude.
During my workout I realize just how much better I had become in just a matter of a few minutes. I had indeed become the belt.
I will never forget promoting one of my students to black belt many years ago. He took his test and passed. I congratulated him and gave him a black belt and walked away, just like my teacher had done. A few minutes later, I was on the floor giving out lessons and I noticed he was wearing his black belt on his shoulder and was not working out. In fact he was leaving. I thought this was kind of funny but didn’t give it much thought until later.
He said, “see you all later” and walked out the door. How strange it is that I never saw him again. He was awarded his black belt and quit the school in the very same night. I guess he had realized his goal of getting a black belt. Unfortunately, he never became the belt. He didn’t strap it on and push his chest out and he never knew what it was like to wear the black belt. He never felt what it was like to knock someone down wearing that coveted black belt with the just gained confidence. He never became the belt.
I can remember another guy who was just an all right brown belt but had stopped progressing for quite some time. It took me a while to figure it out. But, I finally did. He had reached his full potential as a brown belt. He wasn’t going to get any better. I approached him and told him I wanted to test him for his black belt. He reluctantly agreed and one week later I promoted him to black belt.
He put it on right there and I assigned him a workout partner. You wouldn’t believe what I saw. His work out had improved a hundred percent. I could hardly believe my eyes. He had power. He had speed and accuracy. He looked great. He had become the belt. This black belt was his license to become good. The transformation was immediate and permanent.
When you get promoted, be proud of it. Wear it with the confidence it deserves. Become the belt.
